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Old 06-16-2008, 02:44 PM
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Re: just bought an external gps

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Originally Posted by e_town View Post
Why do you need to prime the GPS? Have you not done enough reading on the forums? I can start TomTom ANYTIME and get a lock in less than 15 secs. I used the trick w/ SK shortcut manager and AstroGPS launcher. Works like a charm. No need to prime. Google maps works the same....


Have you not been reading ? That IS priming the gps chip. that's exactly what astrogps launcher is , a gps primer. you are simply bypassing the extra step of starting 2 programs manually where the shortcut manager does this for you.